Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan serves NITI Aayog as a Fellow, heading the verticals of Trade and Commerce, Strategic Economic Dialogue, International Cooperation and Vision India@2047. Prior to joining the GoI, he has been an economist working to analyse a wide range of economic (mainly international trade), disruptive technology, environmental/energy, labor and public health policies. Dr.Gopalakrishnan…

Distinguished Fellow

Dr. Sahoo is an acclaimed thought leader in financial markets and has over four decades of experience. This includes two decades in regulation of markets and professions, as Chairperson, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), Member of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), Whole-time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI),…

President - Center of Data for Economic Decision-making and Chief Statistician

Ashish Kumar has joined Pahle India Foundation as a Distinguished Fellow. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the NITI Aayog, pursuing a project on the estimation of size and composition of digital economy using digital supply use tables. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi…

Distinguished Fellow

R. Subrahmanyam is a Distinguished Fellow at Pahle India Foundation. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer who has served the country for 37 years, starting in 1985. He has covered the entire gamut of the social sector from tribal development, poverty alleviation to education. He is currently a member of the Centre for Research…

President i-LEAP (India Lead Elimination Action Partnership)

Dr Indu Bhushan is a former Indian bureaucrat and economist. He was the first CEO of Ayushman Bharat, an Indian government agency providing national healthcare coverage to the low-income population of the country. His career spans over 40 years and across a multitude of sectors. He received his B.Tech from IIT-BHU and his Postgraduate Diploma…

Shaurya Doval is a Managing Director at Torch Investments wherein he leads the global investment business out of Singapore. He has nearly 25 years of international investment banking experience during which time he has worked for over a decade in London and New York with the leveraged finance business of GE Capital and the Investment…

Executive Director

Ravi is the Executive Director at Pahle India Foundation (PIF), where he leads strategic initiatives, partnerships, and research to advance evidence-based public policy in India. With nearly two decades of experience in policy, governance, and leadership development, he has deep expertise in India’s political economy and institutional reforms. Previously, Ravi was the CEO of Rambhau…

A development economist with over 40 years of varied experience, Satya S. Tripathi is the Secretary-General of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, New York and Chancellor of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar – the world’s largest academic institution dedicated exclusively to indigenous people and cultures. Among other responsibilities, he serves on the…

Member

Arun took early retirement from his corporate career to focus on bringing the benefits of IT/Telecom to real world businesses in energy, health, fintech, medtech, education, hospitality etc. via a vibrant entrepreneurial system and give back to society. He is currently an Independent Director on many boards. He is also an active advisor to Avendus…

Arvind is the Founder and Chairman of Technopak Advisors. Having started its operations in January 1992, Technopak is one of India’s leading management consulting firms focusing on 4 key sectors that include Consumer Products and Retail, Textiles and Apparel, Food Services and Agriculture and Education and Skills Development. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree…

Ajay Khanna is the Chief-Strategic and Public Affairs of Jubilant Bhartia Group since 2009. The Jubilant Bhartia Group, with 36,000 employees, has a strong presence in diverse sectors like Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences, Oil and Gas (exploration and production), Agri products, Performance Polymers, Food and Consulting in Aerospace and Oilfield Services, etc. Ajay was also…

Harsh Mariwala is the Chairman of Marico and Managing Director & Chairman of Kaya Limited. He established the Marico Innovation Foundation in 2003 which works towards nurturing innovations in India and started ASCENT Foundation in 2012, a peer-learning entrepreneurial platform. He founded the Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI), with the philanthropic aim of giving back to…